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Gravity Sketch, a concepting & design tool made for VR, has raised $1.7 million in venture capital. Gravity Sketch, which allows VR users to quickly and easily sketch out 3D industrial design concepts, today announced that […]

Rick Gates (Credit: AP/Andrew Harnik) Rick Gates, a former top aide to Donald Trump, looks close to making a plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller and his investigators. The former deputy to Paul Manafort, campaign […]

Viveport Subscription, the monthly service that lets you play 5 games per month from a curated list, is getting a little more expensive this March. Starting March 22nd, Viveport Subscription will increase its monthly price from […]

(Credit: AP/Evan Vucci) Following a familiar script, President Donald Trump took to Twitter Thursday morning to opine about the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history. Like he had after the shootings in San […]

Robert Rodriguez, the director of films such as Sin City (2005), Planet Terror (2007), and the Spy Kids franchise, just wrapped production on a newly announced VR action series with The Fast and the Furious franchise actress […]

(Credit: AP/Evan Vucci) The so-called blue wave of 2018 swept through Florida’s 72nd district, one that President Donald Trump was once victorious in, as Democratic candidate Margaret Good defeated her Republican opponent James Buchanan on Tuesday […]

John Kelly (Credit: AP/Susan Walsh) In the wake of the domestic violence scandal of former staff secretary Rob Porter, White House chief of staff John Kelly has found himself increasingly isolated in the West […]

Fantastic Contraption (2016), the building puzzler from indie studio Northway Games, is getting its first big update since launch, which includes double the levels and a few new tantalizing features that didn’t make the cut […]

Tender Claws, the creators of the award-winning interactive VR narrative Virtual Virtual Reality, premiered a new, site-specific, interactive AR narrative experience at the Sundance New Frontier called TendAR. It was a social augmented reality […]

According to documents filed last month with SEC, a new stock issuance of some $10 million by OLED microdisplay maker eMagin will be bought up by Apple, Valve, and LG, among others. Founded in 1993, […]

Rand Paul (Credit: Reuters/Brian Snyder) The federal government officially shut down for the second time in less than a month late Thursday but reopened less than six hours later after the House and Senate passed a wide-ranging budget […]

(Credit: AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) Senior members of the White House knew of the allegations of abuse domestic abuse against staff secretary Rob Porter for months. But instead of pushing him out, the administration […]

ARK Park, the VR multiplayer adventure game based on the world of ARK:Survival Evolved (2017), was originally slated for a December release on PlayStation VR, but then production studio Snail Games delayed the game as it […]

Steve Wynn and Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Joe Cavaretta) After a month that saw a bombshell report that casino mogul Steve Wynn had a history of sexual abuse against his employees, Wynn’s departure from the Republican […]

Squanch Games (formerly Squanchtendo) and partner studio Crows Crows Crows have just added a new level to their PSVR game Accounting+ (2017). Called ‘The Waterpark Update’, the level is a free update that also includes a […]

(Credit: AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) When Mick Mulvaney was named to be head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, watchdogs and bureau insiders were both worried that Mulvaney’s intent was to gut the agency tasked with investigating […]

I AM A MAN is an upcoming interactive VR experience that lets you participate in the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike and the events leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination. Created by […]

(Credit: Shutterstock/Matej Kastelic) Louisiana students still don’t know how much they will have to pay to attend college next year. The state, which is in deep and persistent debt, is strongly considering slicing its […]

In Death is a roguelike bow-shooter from Sólfar Studio, the developers behind Everest VR (2016). Now in Early Access on Steam and Oculus Home, the procedurally generated, medieval-inspired world stretching out in front of you offers a […]

Supporting HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, Supermedium is a new, fully VR browser from the creators of VR web framework ‘A-Frame’ and part of the original Mozilla team behind the WebVR initiative. Available to […]

(Credit: Getty/Shawn Thew/Twitter/Salon) As I write this, reports have it that Rep. Devin Nunes’ legendary “memo” will be released today, perhaps not by the White House but rather by the Congress, as Trump plays […]

Sólfar Studios’ new title IN DEATH, launches today in Early Access with a launch week discount. The “roguelike” bow-shooter makes use of procedural generation to create different experience every time you play, the developers say, while […]

Samantha Bee ripped into President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, saying the president “took a break from screaming about immigrants to scream slightly more politely at lawmakers about immigrants.” “It’s not surprising Trump […]

VRgineers is a Czech-based startup building a VR headset positioned strictly for the enterprise world. Compared to today’s consumer VR headsets, it’s undeniably huge and heavy, but a hands-on with their latest VRHero “5K” Plus […]

(Credit: AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) In the latest example of conflicts of interest within the Trump administration, a top public health official purchased shares in a major tobacco company only one month to her job as the […]

VirZOOM, makers of VR arcade exercise games and the VirZOOM Bike Controller, announced the successful closure of a $5.5 million seed funding round which the company says will help expand its commercial business worldwide with […]

Aftermath of Hurricane Maria, in San Juan, Puerto Rico (Credit: AP/Carlos Giusti) Four months after Hurricane Maria left Puerto Rico devastated, federal assistance is coming to a close, and will “officially shut off” on […]

Positron, a Los Angeles-based VR technology studio, announced at Sundance that it closed a $1.4 million seed funding deal to further develop the next generation of the company’s VR motion chair, Voyager. Funding was provided by Lazar Ventures […]

(Credit: AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) Efforts to legalize marijuana for recreational use in the state of New Jersey have rapidly accelerated as the new Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy has been ushered into office. Throughout […]

After talking to a lot of independent VR storytellers, Kaleidoscope VR’s René Pinnell identified that funding was one of the biggest blockers for continued experimentation. Cinematic VR pieces do not have many established distribution […]

Sean Hannity (Credit: Getty/Nicholas Kamm) President Donald Trump is denying that he attempted to fire special counsel Robert Mueller in June — but his most prominent supporters, instead of joining him, are simply downplaying […]

(Credit: Getty/Ron Sachs) President Donald Trump is “looking forward” to to being interviewed by Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating the Trump campaign’s alleged ties with the Russian government, repeatedly suggesting he hasn’t done anything […]

SPHERES, a three-chapter space experience from Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa Pictures, was just bought by VR finance and distribution firm CityLights in what Variety describes as a “seven-figure deal.” While the respective companies are remaining mum on […]

(Credit: Getty/Mark Wilson) Following a year of heightened tensions and childish threats hurled between the United States and North Korea, a new poll shows that roughly half of Americans are concerned President Donald Trump […]

Gallopin’ Gorgons! An updated version of the Harry Potter Universe game for Daydream, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them VR Experience, is arriving today. Not only that, but owners of Vive, Rift and Gear VR will finally […]

If you’ve been eyeing a Windows VR headset, you’ll be interested to see the huge discounts currently available from Amazon US on every Windows VR headset except for the Samsung Odyssey. The Windows “Mixed […]

Onward, the tactical multiplayer shooter for Vive and Rift, is getting another free weekend – this time for Rift players on Oculus Home. The free weekend begins January 25th at 1:00 PM ET and goes until the 29th at 3:00 […]

The Sundance Film Festival just kicked off in Park City, Utah, and Oculus announced in a blogpost they’re debuting five experiences at the New Frontier section of Sundance—all of which they helped bring to life. Sundance’s […]

U.S. Marines at Task Force Southwest military field in Shorab military camp of Helmand province, Afghanistan. (Credit: AP/Massoud Hossaini) Let’s see: They have spent the last four or five days negotiating a so-called “continuing […]

Tom Cotton (Credit: AP/Andrew Harnik) In October, Stacey Lane — a human resources professional of 19 years, got in the mail a cease-and-desist letter from Senator Tom Cotton, R-Ark. The letter, in an envelope addressed […]

VRChat, the social chatroom for VR and non-VR users, is doing booming business. According to SteamSpy, the app has seen a mind-boggling 1 million fresh installs in only the last 10 days, putting it currently at 2 million […]

(Credit: AP/Getty/Salon) President Donald Trump is approaching the one-year mark in office, and despite his best attempts to “Make America Great Again,” Trump is wrapping up with a 38 percent average approval rating. That average speaks to Americans’ […]

As Oculus has pushed out iterative runtimes to support its consumer hardware, many of the beloved early VR experiments have fallen to the wayside, languishing without support and lost in the annals of defunct […]

(Credit: Michael Middleton) Trump’s Interior Department is reinstating two 1966 leases, written before today’s federal environmental laws, that could allow a Chilean mining company to build a giant copper-and-nickel mine adjacent to the Boundary […]

HTC Creative Labs’s free native VR video player has received an upgrade with a new browser interface. The team has also partnered with Vimeo, offering a curated selection of streamable VR video content. Explained […]

James Rosen (Credit: YouTube/Fox News) Fox News’ former chief Washington correspondent, James Rosen, left the network suddenly in late December after an 18-year career. According to NPR, it is likely that his departure is […]

This week at CES 2018, Tactical Haptics debuted a new prototype of their haptic VR controller which allows the devices to attach and detach on the fly in several different poses for different types of […]

(Credit: Getty/rez-art) A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that high ibuprofen dosages can be linked to lower fertility in men. The six-week study involved a group of 31 […]